Stockhausen: "Kontakte" Part 3

Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Kontakte" (electronic music) (1959 - 1960)
This work exists in two forms: a completely electronic version (heard here), and a second version for electronic sounds, piano and percussion.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• avant
• garde
• new
• music
• twelve
• tone

[FrizzyWoolWoman]

okay. there are few feelings greater for me than when i realize that what i'm listening to encompasses what i have been wanting to hear in music; when i've been desiring some vague type of sound and then i find a specific example!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

some person on part one left a comment THIS ISNT MUSIC JUST NOISE I can get the sheet music for this at the local university library.........

[IwanttoliveinParis]

I was playing this on another browser tab, underneath Bizarre Inc's "I'm Gonna Get You" (1992), and it worked pretty well.

[IwanttoliveinParis]

It's got a good beat, and I can dance to it.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

DrRoryMagowan left a comment on part 1

[tectp]

whats interesting to me is how physical the music is. You can sort of see in the photo above how Stockhausen is spinning the turntable to achieve some sort of fast panning effect. All that cutting and splicing of tape......The composers physical input is obviously tremendous.

[Hundspost]

What you hear right at the beginning seems to be a permanent sound, but it's really a very fast succession of single sounds, so fast that we perceive it as a square wave. When the frequency gets lower it gradually turns into a rhythm. Stockhausen called this Mikro- and Makro-Rhythm.